About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its ...

Most of us can rattle off Europe's great royal houses: the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Plantagenets, the Stuarts, the ...

Some medieval books can’t be read by anyone, and one of them has become almost a trademark of the genre: the Voynich manuscript, kept at Yale University and dated ...

View of the apse and choir of the mountain-top church during excavations in 2022. Credit: A. Guicheteau, Inrap Archaeologists excavating a wooded hill in Burgundy have found a large church, buildings ...

Archaeologists recovering the Bronze Age sword. Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria Meridionale A bronze sword from the 13th century ...

A new study argues that the Sun will shed its outer layers in about 4,600 lopsided bursts rather than a smooth breeze. Each burst would nudge the giant planets just enough to scramble their orbits, ...

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...

Hagar, a village in Egypt's Gharbia province, was working on a plot of land in front of his house when he came across a block ...

Until now, the biggest fruiting bodies known among the ascomycetes, the largest group of fungi (it includes morels and ...

The building, named Jandial D, turned up during excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission of Ca' Foscari University ...

Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between ...

Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, ...